So, apart from whatever idea you find more suitable, as I was playing around with a module for dictionary utils just this week, I made a proof of concept thingy that uses context managers and import from - Whoever want to try it is welcome, of course: (env)[gwidion@localhost tmp30]$ pip install extradict ... Successfully installed extradict-0.1.9 (env)[gwidion@localhost tmp30]$ python ...
from extradict import MapGetter a = dict(b="test", c="another test") with MapGetter(a) as a: ... from a import b, c ... print (b, c) test another test
---------- For the time being it works as a naive implementation monkey patching "__import__" - When (and if) I get a proper thing using the importlib machinery , I will upgrade "extradict" to 0.2 On 28 May 2016 at 15:03, David Mertz <mertz@gnosis.cx> wrote:
Worrying about how many .getmany() is seems silly. As Guido notes, it follows the pattern of .fetchmany() in the DBAPI. That "many" might be one, or even zero, which is fine.
On May 28, 2016 3:23 AM, "Nathan Schneider" <neatnate@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 2:41 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
"getmany" doesn't tell you, many of what?
I think the idea is that it would get the same kind of things that get() gets, i.e. items by their keys.
My slight hesitation about "many" is that it's a subjective quantity. (Are 2 or 3 keys enough to count as "many"?)
Another option would be 'geteach'—i.e., for each key provided, get a value. Or 'getmult' (multiple), but that could be mistaken as multiplication.
Nathan
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